NOTABLE CHANGES OF THE CATHOLIC PRESS Apparently the Catholic press of the country is being stirred as by a tempest. After years of corporate existence the venerable Donahoe's Magazine of Boston has been merged with the Catholic World of New York. The change was made imperative because of lack of Catholic support. THERE IS ONLY ONE After more than sixty years of existence the Catholic Mirror of Baltimore, Cardinal Gibbons' official organ, has suspended sine die. Cause, once more, lack of Catholic support. The aged Pilot of Boston has been purchased by His Grace Archbishop O'Connell, and will hereafter appear as the official organ of that province. Its late editor, Miss Katherine E. Conway, has become editor of the Boston Republic. SOAPINE Does Twice as Much Work as any Cheaper Washing Powder SAVE THE BEAUTIFUL FRAMED PICTURES WHALES FOR Art Gallery: 134 W. 18th St., near Sixth Ave., N. Y. Jersey City Agency, 623 Ocean Avenue The College of St. Angela, New Rochelle, N. Y. The College of Saint Angela, founded in 1904. is the only Catholic college for women in New York State. It offers a four years' course leading to a bach elor's degree in art, science or music. Its graduates are recognized by the Regents of the State of New York, and by the Educational Department of New York City as having the same careful preparation given in the New York State colleges of highest rank. Special attention is given to the study of music and art In the Extension centres, courses of college rank are given. Teachers are trained for New York State and New York City licenses Extension Departments: New York, Park Ave and 93d Street: Brooklyn.. Montrose and Graham Aves.; Albany, St. Patrick's Institute. NEW BOOK BY CARDINAL GIBBONS Cardinal Gibbons has just given the final touches to a new book and turned the manuscript over to his publishers, who will issue the work before his return from Europe in the autumn. The book is entitled "Discourses and Sermons on Various Subjects," and will fill about 525 pages of uniform size. It touches upon a great variety of subjects, and represents the result of six years of labor. "Faith of Our Father," the Cardinal's first book, has been selling steadily for many years. It has now gone past 800,000 in the English edition. In French, German, and Spanish it has had a circulation. almost unprecedented for a religious. book. Other books of the Cardinal are "Our Christian Heritage" and "The Ambassador of Christ." Human life is a perpetual change. Our body is not at night what it was in the morning: it has gained for life, or lost for death. And thus the soul of the Christian should not be at night what it was in the morning: it should have changed for perfection and glory. Especially if the Holy Eucharist has been received, one should reproduce in one's life the mystery of the change affected on the altar, and give to Jesus Christ, in return for His miracles, a heart more and more transformed from day to day-Perreyve. Everything S. II St. Louis Bertrand, C. Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost F. 23 St. John Capistran, C. Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost F. 30 St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, C. 77TH ST & MADISON AVE. PHONE 774-79TH 37TH ST. AT 6THAVENE.COR.PHONE 24-38 Electrical repaired Curtis-Blaisdell Co Dealers in all kinds of COAL Deliveries Made to all parts of Manhattan and the Bronx Main Office: 56th Street and East River Depots: Dover St. and East River 28th Street and East River 56th Street and East River 119th Street and East River 96th Street and North River 40th Street and North River 357 Water Street 503 Grand St., Jersey City In business twenty-one years; average sales per day during the first monthtwo tons; average sales per day at pre ent-3,500 tons This remarkable increase in business is due to honest, intelligent, enterprising methods; methods which are constantly getting us new friends and new customers, especially among those who observe, consider, and discriminate A TRAITOR TO HIS CAUSE State Deputy Geo. W. Young, in his annual report to the State Council of Louisiana of the Knights of Columbus, thus emphasizes the true attitude of the Catholic laity toward the clergy: "The soldier who does not respect and fails in loyalty to his officers is a traitor to his cause. Without the grace of God we cannot expect to accomplish anything, and we cannot expect to be blest with the grace of God unless we yield cheerful obedience and unswerving loyalty to His chosen ministers. THE CATHOLIC SEAMEN'S 422 West Street, New York City. The object of this Mission is to get the seamen to attend to their religious duty-particularly, Easter and Christmas duty. We do not deal in sentimentality, we have no bread line to encourage pauperism, we do not run a lodging house, we do not encourage the "Sons of Rest" (and we meet them very often); we deal with men who have the faith, who will listen to the Word of God and who, in their struggle for existence, endeavor to profit by it. If you had a wayward son, who ran away to sea, would you not be pleased, after he had been absent a few years, to hear from him? Our Mission encourages such young men to communicate with their parents. If you knew of a good husband and father, who, having fallen in with bad company, returned to his family a new man, reconciled with his God and church-would you not be pleased to hear of it? Our Mission endeavors to accomplish this result. Is it not consoling to a gray-haired mother or to a loving wife or child to be informed that her son, husband, or father, although having died in a foreign land, went before his God, fortified by the Sacraments of our holy church, and his body placed in consecrated ground? Our Mission so cared for three seamen in the past year. Those who form their opinions of our Catholic seamen from the unfortunate "Jack Tar" staggering through Our streets, pouring out mouthfuls of foul blasphemy, and finally forming one of those sad processions that wend their way from the saloon to prison, do our seamen a most crying injustice. There is no class of men more appreciative of and susceptible to the good that is done for them. In disposition they are as "The temporal progress and welfare of the Church demand as a bodyguard to a devoted clergy, a courageous and intelligent laity, rich in those virtues whose practice ennobles humanity and glorifies God. "It should be our highest ambition to constitute this glorious body-guard. and by the salutary influence of constant and steady example demonstrate to the world the soundness of the eternal truths which form the soul and the substance of a Catholic's faith and upon which his best and dearest hopes depend." simple as children. Their simplicity is their greatest danger. They have the greatest respect for authority, and it is rare that a seaman will enter the Mission under the influence of liquor. Although our reading-room is mainly for Catholic seamen, it is never shut against any seaman who wishes to avail himself of its benefits. The religious tenets of the sea men olics visit our Mission nightly. are never questioned. Non-Cath The support of our Mission has been drawn principally from donations and St. Peter's Union for Catholic Seamen, which consists of promoters who have sixteen members in their bands, contributing the sum of Twenty-five cents a year. But these means of obtaining money cannot be relied upon, and accordingly we are compelled to have an "Annual Benefit." I wish to inform you, principally you have Catholics who traveled abroad, and who have contributed to the entertainments held on the ships for "Seamen's Charities," that this Mission, the only Catholic Seamen's Mission in this city, has not in the fourteen years of its existence, received one penny from any of the steamship companies, though I have notified the companies of this fact. I have been informed that all the proceeds of entertainments and public inspections go to a Protestant Orphan Asylum in England, into which asylum a Catholic woman cannot place her children though her husband was a seaman. The Annual Benefit this year will be held Monday eve, October 19, 1908, at Palm Garden. Fifty-eighth Street, near Lexington Avenue. Tickets fifty cents. Will not every one who reads this buy at least one ticket, and those who can afford it more. Address all communications to Rev. P. J. Magrath, Director, 657 Washington Street, New York City. 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